It’s 5 a.m., work starts in a few hours and you’ve got an 8-mile run to do. Your alarm beeps at you and you reach over to make it stop. You can do one of two things: turn it off, seize the day and do your run, or fall into the endless cycle of 9-minute snooze sessions.

We’ve all been there, and we’ve all probably done both at one time or another. But Hansons-Brooks Runner Des Linden is here to give you 10 things to tell yourself to get you up and out the door for your early morning run. Here we go!

1. If I get out the door today, I can hit snooze tomorrow. <repeat daily>

2. Before the run coffee. After the run cofFEE. All day more time for KAWFEE!